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Banning VPNs and Proxies is Dangerous, IT Experts Warn
Quote In its fight to restrict access to copyrighted content and blocked websites, the Russian government wants to ban the use of anonymization technology including VPNs, proxies, and TOR. In a...
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T411, France’s Most-Visited Torrent Site, Has Been Shut Down
T411, France's most-visited torrent site, has been shut down by police in France and Sweden. With millions of users, the platform was a true giant and a top 50 site in France, period. Two Ukrainians...
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Indie Game Developer Shares Free Keys on The Pirate Bay
While many copyright holders are filled with rage when they see their content showing up at The Pirate Bay, not all are. The developer of the indie adventure game 'Paradigm' decided to hand out free...
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Operation ‘Pirate On Demand’ Blocks Pirate IPTV Portals
A crackdown on groups that provide unauthorized IPTV services has continued today with the blocking of several portals. Operation 'Pirate On Demand' is being carried out by the Guardia di Finanza...
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New Lawsuit Demands ISP Blockades Against ‘Pirate’ Site Sci-Hub
Quote Shortly after Sci-Hub was ordered to pay $15 million in piracy damages to Elsevier, the American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit of its own against the "Pirate Bay for Science." The scientific...
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Nintendo Shuts Down “Donkey Kong” Remake For Roku
Quote Many gaming fans love to play old arcade games through emulators or remakes, but Nintendo is less amused by fan-made recreations. This week the company took down a remake of the 1981 classic...
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uTorrent Now Has a Built-in Game Store
uTorrent has introduced a Game Store to its popular download client. The store offers a range of games on multiple platforms which users can buy from within uTorrent. While this sounds promising, it...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 07/03/17
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Kong: Skull Island' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Wonder Woman'. 'King Arthur: Legend of the Sword' completes the top three....
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Chrome’s Default ‘Ad-Blocker’ is Bad News for Torrent Sites
Torrent sites are having trouble maintaining a steady flow of revenue, with the increasing use of ad-blockers affecting sites right across the board. And with Google's plan to add a default ad-blocker...
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Pirate Bay Re-enters List of 100 Most Popular Sites on the Internet
The Pirate Bay has slowly but steadily returned to its former glory. After more than three years, the deviant torrent site has regained a spot among the 100 most-visited sites on the Internet. While...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 07/10/17
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Alien Covenant' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Ghost in a Shell'. 'Kong: Skull Island' completes the top three. This week we...
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Handy: Google Highlights ‘Best Torrent Sites’ in Search Results
Google is an excellent search engine. The company does its best to present users with relevant information wherever it can. With a reel of popular torrent sites, for example, when users search for it....
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Pirate Bay Founder Wants to Save Lives With His New App
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde likes to innovate to improve people's lives, but with his latest project, he wants to save them too. Currently under development by members of the former Flattr team,...
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Copyright Troll Claims Texan Woman Downloaded Over 54,000 Torrents
Copyright holders have leveled some quite outrageous accusations over the years, but Malibu Media is taking it to the next level. The company is trying to convince a Texas woman to settle a piracy...
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Movie Studios Wipe Pirate Site Homepages From Google Search
Over the past two weeks, dozens of pirate streaming sites had their homepages stripped from Google's search results. The removals are triggered by a series of targeted takedown requests sent by the...
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Game of Thrones Premiere Ignites Annual Piracy Bonanza
With hundreds of thousands of people jumping on the latest torrents for the season seven premiere, Game of Thrones remains the most-shared TV show on BitTorrent. However, the piracy landscape is much...
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Several TVAddons Domains Transferred to Canadian Lawfirm
Last month, leading Kodi addon repository TVAddons shut down in the wake of a lawsuit filed in the US by satellite and broadcast provider Dish Network. Just over a month later and with no other news...
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‘Game of Thrones Season 7 Premiere Pirated 90 Million Times’
Data published by the piracy monitoring firm MUSO suggests that the season opener of Game of Thrones was pirated 90 million times. Most of the traffic was generated by unauthorized streaming services,...
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FossHub Forced to Pull Google Ads From qBitTorrent Downloads
FossHub, a download site that hosts free and open-source software, has pulled Google advertising from the whole of its file-sharing software section. The difficult decision was taken after Google...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 07/17/17
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'The Mummy' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Ghost in the Shell'. 'The Boss Baby' completes the top three. This week we have two...
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